Professor Alasdair Geddes, who has died aged 89, was an expert in infectious diseases who diagnosed smallpox in the last recorded person to die of the disease anywhere in the world; later, following the September 11 attacks, he became an adviser on bioterrorism for the Department of Health.
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VANCOUVER The Greek alphabet arrived on the global stage and into everyday lexicon riding on waves of the novel coronavirus as the World Health Organization began naming variants in the Glagolitic script.